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ROSES: Autumn/Winter 2022-23

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  • @Tack
    You are giving Diamond Eyes the SP?
    I seem to recall you were enthusiastic about this earlier in the year (I put it on my wish list because of it), what changed your mind on this one?

    Just another day at the plant...
  • Busy-LizzieBusy-Lizzie Posts: 24,043
    I live in France, OH lives in Norfolk, complicated, yes we do manage to see each other! We were both widowed so already had houses.

    That means I have 2 gardens. I've planted new roses in both. The French garden was just a large grassed area, no flowers so I've made it into a garden. I moved here January 2021. Downsized from last French house. All my family are in France so I want to have a home here. OH's family are in the UK.

    French garden, I have planted - Lady Emma Hamilton, Marie Curie, Jacques Cartier, Louise Odier, Comte de Chambord, Burgundy Ice, Felicia, Cornelia, Stanwell Perpetual, Darcey Bussell, Amica x 3, Aspirin x3, Graham Thomas, Happiness, Golden Celebration and Arthur Bell. There was already a Peace up the house wall, a red rose and a deep pink rose with clusters of small double flowers.

    In Norfolk I have planted Penelope, Ghislaine de Féligonde, Oranges and Lemons, Westerland, Olivia Rose Austin, Park Inspector Riggers, Souvenir de Dr Jamain and Grosvenor House. There was already climbing Iceberg, Mme Caroline Testout, Malvern Hills, New Dawn, unknown red climber, Albertine and Ballerina.

    The summer rose thread got so busy I didn't have time to keep up with it! I may read through it this winter. 

    Where is @Marlorena? I hope she's OK.
    Dordogne and Norfolk. Clay in Dordogne, sandy in Norfolk.
  • WAMSWAMS Posts: 1,960
    Thanks, @Fire. Funnily enough I actually already have Graham Thomas on order from Trevor White. I will look for Winchester C elsewhere. Some price gouger on ebay now has it for £112- good luck with that.😁

    It does seem a bit as though they are "breaking with the old order."

    MW and Darcey Bussell (which has now been nixed too- she was in my basket!) both still have several years left on their patents. And Benjamin Britten has also just been nixed. Did I post my wishlist somewhere? They're ripping it to pieces. I was planning to order the Jubilee Celebration standard, but it's just been archived, too.

    Worst, DA were assuring people up to last week that LEH was going nowhere and they were going to make the ordering system fairer so everyone could get one next year.🤨

    @Nollie too right. They must have got very excited by all the extra Elizabeths they flogged this year, too. It's all a bit cynical tbh.
  • WAMSWAMS Posts: 1,960
    @Busy-Lizzie Marlorena stepped back from the forum for a while to focus on other things. She's much missed.
  • NollieNollie Posts: 7,529
    Well, it’s business, innit? Darcy too now? I was debating shovel pruning her as I’m getting rid of most of the roses in my wall of death by heat bed, but now I might pot her up and hang on.

    @Busy-Lizzie M is taking a break from the forum for a while, but we hope she rejoins us at some point. Her expertise is much missed. I can’t imaging having to manage two rose gardens, one is more than enough for me!
    Mountainous Northern Catalunya, Spain. Hot summers, cold winters.
  • Busy-LizzieBusy-Lizzie Posts: 24,043
    Thank you both, about Marlorena.

    My obelisk arrived this morning. I bought Darcey Bussell last year on a very cheap end of season offer from Promesse des Fleurs. I planted her in the veg garden as she was rather pathetic and I hadn't yet made the round rose bed. I planted her into the new round rose bed this spring and now she thinks she's a climber. I pruned off the longest stems but she promptly grew more so I'm going to wind her around the obelisk. I wonder if she really is what the label said. I haven't seen the flowers yet but I have been away in Norfolk quite a bit. She is surrounded by alternate Amica and Aspirin which are pink and white, only 5€ each on end of season offer and doing very well. My lovely handyman has been brilliant keeping my new garden watered.
    Dordogne and Norfolk. Clay in Dordogne, sandy in Norfolk.
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